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No reference, just experience from my former jobs (comparing hdd's of 
the same type bought in the same time). Maybe the new hdd's are better 
from that point of view, I haven't tested on the new hdd's because such 
tests take a while.


On 10/27/2011 07:47 PM, Mark Hahn wrote:
>> Nevertheless, writing directly on the harddisk is not quite the best
> practice because you reduce the life of your harddisk to at least half
>
> Do you have a reference for this?  Drives are designed to be used 100% of
> the time.
>